Dr.
F. William Sunderman M23 Gr29, Philadelphia, professor emeritus
of pathology and laboratory medicine; March 9. He directed the chemistry
division of the William Pepper Laboratory at Penn in the 1930s, developing
methods for the measurement of blood cholesterol, glucose, and chloride.
During the Second World War he was medical director of explosive research
at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Los Alamos Laboratories, parts
of the Manhattan Project. There he investigated the effects of nickel
carbonyl on workers exposed in the making of atomic weapons. He developed
an antidote for nickel-carbonyl poisoning, using himself as a human
test subject. I took the first dose, he said. Id worked around
the laboratory animals so much that I knew it would work. Dr. Sunderman
assisted in the setup of the medical department for Brookhaven National
Laboratories and served as a medical consultant at the Redstone Arsenal
from 1947 to 1969. He was also the department head of clinical pathology
at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta. He worked at the Cleveland
Clinic, the M.D. Anderson Hospital Cancer Center in Texas, and Emory
University. In 1951 he became professor of medicine and director of
the metabolic research division at Jefferson Medical College (later
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital), where he investigated new techniques
to diagnose diseases of the thyroid, adrenal, and other endocrine
organs. Dr. Sunderman was the founder of the Association of Clinical
Scientists. And he was also responsible for the standardization of
hemoglobin measurements throughout the world. In 1938, during his
convalescence from pulmonary tuberculosis, he practiced the violin;
most summers thereafter, he would travel to Germany and Austria to
perform on his Stradivarius with professional chamber musicians. He
performed a violin duet with his son, a musician, at Carnegie Hall
in 1998, and a violin solo at his alma mater, Gettysburg College,
on his 100th birthday. Dr. Sunderman was the co-author of more than
300 scientific papers and numerous books on medicine, chamber music,
and photography, along with an autobiography, A Time to Remember
(1998), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He was the founding
editor of The Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science in
1971 and was working on the latest edition at the time of his death.
He saw Halleys Comet twiceas a youth with his father in 1910 and
again while doing research in New Zealand 76 years later. In 1999,
at age 101, he was recognized as Americas oldest worker, following
a nationwide search by Experience Works, Inc.

Frances
Drew Sutherland Ed23, Brevard, N.C., a former high-school teacher
in Westfield, N.J.; March 1. She was past president of the American
Association of University Women, and remained active in support of
the Transylvania County (N.C.) Library

1925
| George
H. Buterbaugh Ar25, Salisbury, Conn.,
a retired architect who had worked for Charles A. Platt in New York,
Paul Cret in Philadelphia, and Cram & Ferguson in Boston; Dec.
8, 2002. He and his wife were instrumental in the opening of the Holley-Williams
House museum in Lakeville, Conn. Serving in the U.S. Naval Reserves
during the Second World War, he earned the rank of lieutenant commander.

Dr.
George N. Sommer Jr. C28 M32 GM39, Yardley, Pa., a retired
thoracic surgeon and Army colonel; Feb. 6. During the Second World
War, he served as chief of surgery with the U.S. Army Medical Corps
in England, and as head of thoracic surgery for a network of 20 hospitals
where he treated wounded soldiers transported from the battlefields
of Normandy and prisoners of war captured by the Allied forces. Dr.
Sommer completed active duty in 1946 but continued serving in the
U.S. Army Reserve. When he returned from the war, he was presented
with the Legion of Merit at Fort Dix; he rarely left his Bucks County
home without the pin attached to his lapel or collar. Dr. Sommer was
head of thoracic surgery at Trentons St. Francis Medical Center from
1939 until he retired in 1977, excluding his five years in the Army.
A founder of the Pennsylvania Society of Thoracic Surgeons, he was
a 58-year member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

H.
Dorn Stewart W28, Lancaster, Pa., a principal and director at
Ward Howell Associates International, a consulting firm specializing
in executive recruitment, from 1963 until his retirement in 1975;
Dec. 22, 2002. He was past president of the Barrett Division of Allied
Chemical Corp., now Allied Signal, from 1958 to 1963. And he worked
from 1929 to 1958 as a marketing manager for the floor and building
materials division of Armstrong World Industries. He served as co-chair
of the liaison committee of the American Institute of Architects and
Producers Council and as president of several organizations devoted
to building materials. At Penn he was president of the junior class
and sat on the board of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He was a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, the Friars Senior Society, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity. During his years at Penn he held a variety of jobs, including
night clerk at the Covington Hotel and sports writer for The Public
Ledger.

Owen
Eugene Penney W29, Taneytown, Md., a valuation engineer and budgeteer
for the Capitol Transit Co. in Washington for 35 years; March 15.
Chair of the camp committee for Camp Fire Girls, he was also active
in the Boy Scouts., He was a founding member of the Taneytown Baptist
Church. At Penn he was a member the varsity crew, and a member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

1930
| I.
Meyer Abeles EE30, East Brunswick, N.J.,
a mechanical engineer, for more than 34 years, in the ordinance department
of General Electric Co. in Schenectady, N.Y. and Pittsfield, Mass.;
Nov. 8, 2001. A chessmaster, he won the 1938 Schenectady Chess Championship.
He had been a member of the Berkshire Klezmer Society, playing mandolin
and violin, and had organized the Senior Citizens Poetry Group in
Pittsfield.

Henry
B. Brown Jr. CE30 GCE32, Harleysville, Pa., a civil engineer;
Sept. 1, 2002. He was vice-president of sales at Superior Tube Company,
where he was employed for 40 years, retiring in 1974. He had served
on the War Production Board during the Second World War. At Penn he
was a member of Theta XI fraternity, and Mask & Wig.

G.
Allan Dash W30, G35, Jenkintown, Pa., Jan. 4, 2000.

Frederick
C. Dirks W30, Bethesda, Md., Nov. 5, 1998.

Albert
Griffin W30 G33, Winter Haven, Fla., the retired president and
vice-chair of the Exchange National Bank of Winter Haven; Feb. 17.
Raised in a family of bankers and Wharton graduates, he was an instructor
at Wharton until 1939, then he became a professor of banking and finance
at Emory University. His son is Albert Griffin Jr. W57.

Dr.
William H. Hoffman C30, Wilmington, Del., April 5, 2002.

C.
Warner Koenig W30, Birmingham, Ala., a retired manager of the
southern district for General Refractories, where he worked for 47
years; Sept. 29, 2001. At Penn he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Dr.
Julius Levine G30, Cherry Hill, N.J., Oct. 30, 1999.

Edith
Gould Masters OT30, Bangor, Pa., Jan. 6, 1999.

Stella
Goodman Minick G30, Atlanta, an artist who gained national and
international recognition for the hand-woven fabric designs created
at her studios in New York and Savannah, Ga.; March 1. During the
Second World War she was chair of Bundles for Britain and Bundles
for America, and was recognized for having devoted more than 3,500
hours to U.S.O. work as senior hostess as Camp Ritchie, Md. As president
of the garden club in Waynesboro, Ga., she increased membership from
18 to 250 members.

1931
| Mabel
Bosler Burris Ed31, Manalapan, N.J.,
a retired mathematics teacher in the public schools of Johnstown,
Pa., for 39 years; March 5. At her retirement in 1975 she was recognized
by staff and students of the high school as a dedicated teacher who
always persuaded the reluctant learner and encouraged the scholar.
At Penn she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She was the first
woman to attend the Wharton School. Mabel was a life member of the
American Association of University Women, and had served as superintendent
of the Sunday school, a deacon, and a trustee of Memorial Baptist
Church, Johnstown.

William
A. Carrodus WEv31, Newtown Square, Pa., Jan. 8.

Anna
Hawkes Hutton Ed31 L34, Bristol, Pa., founder and former chair
of the board of the Washington Crossing Foundation, a non-profit organization
that provides scholarships to outstanding students with a commitment
to government service; March 10. She was a past chair of Historic
Fallsington, Inc., which is dedicated to the preservation of the colonial
village in Falls Township, Pa., and past president of both the Distinguished
Daughters of Pennsylvania and the Historical Foundation of Pennsylvania.
And she was a former commissioner of the American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission. Her books, published from 1948 to 1972, include George
Washington Crossed Here, Portrait of Patriotism, and The Pennsylvanian.
Philadelphias Walnut Street Theater produced her play, The Decision,
in 1976. Anna was the first woman to receive the Freedom Leadership
Award from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge. She received numerous
other awards, including the medal of honor from Daughters of the American
Revolution; the Legion of Valor of the United States of America, and
the Patriotism Award presented by the Philadelphia Flag Association.
She served on the commission for Washington Crossing Park for more
than 50 years.

Louis
B. Schwartz W32 L35, San Francisco, emeritus professor of law
at the University of California at San Francisco who helped bring
about significant changes in the penal codes of many states; Jan.
23. After two years as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he served in Washington
with the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice
Department, joining Penns Law faculty in 1946. During the mid-1950s
he served on a panel that recommended repealing fair trade laws
directed against cut-rate retail sales to the public. Although he
opposed such retail regulations, he disagreed with some of the panels
findings, arguing that they would weaken antitrust law in general.
In 1962 the American Law Institute endorsed a model penal code drawn
up by Professor Schwartz and Professor Herbert Wechsler of Columbia
University; they attempted to take a fresh look at state criminal
law and set out a clear and consistent framework to which all laws
should conform. The code, regarded at the time as one of the most
important recent works of legal scholarship, resulted in about 35
states amending or codifying their laws to bring them closer in line
with its provisions. Professor Schwartz was later director of the
National Commission on the Reform of Federal Criminal Law, and was
a visiting professor at Harvard and Columbia universities, and the
universities of Cambridge and London. His daughters are Johanna Schwartz
CW65 and Victoria Schwartz CW68.

Louis
A. Kober CE33, Dresher, Pa., Feb. 6. He owned and operated Reiter
Engineering Co., a civil- and mechanical-engineering firm in Philadelphia
and later Hatboro, for 50 years, retiring in 1980. He was a member
of the first graduating class of Simon Gratz High School (1929).

Thomas Wistar Jr. Ar34, New London, N.H., a retired architect
who also worked for the design and research division of the National
Park Service; March 5. He maintained a private architectural practice
for residential and commercial properties in Philadelphia and New
Hampshire. His numerous community activities included serving as past
president of the Indian Rights Association in Philadelphia and the
New London Boys Club, an organization founded by his father-in-law
in 1930. He was chair of New London Hospital Day and a founder and
board president of the Van Wyck Association of Philadelphia,which
presented him with the Van Wyck Award for his many years of service.
An avid cricket player while a student at Haverford College, he was
a founder of the C. C. Morris Cricket Library there. During theSecond
World Warhe
served on the U.S. Naval Board of Inspection and Survey, which was
responsible for all the fighting ships being built in naval yards
on the East Coast.

Dr.
Joseph F. Leary D36, Conshohocken, Pa., a retired dentist and
local historian; March 6. He had served stateside in the U.S. Army
Dental Corps before being discharged as a captain in 1946, and went
on to practice dentistry in Conshohocken for 46 years, retiring in
1982. A lifelong resident there, he co-founded the Conshohocken Historical
Society; his father and grandfather had been active in the early formation
of the borough. In the 1936 Penn yearbook he listed the important
things in his life as God, family, and love of Conshohocken.

William
J. Prichard Ch36, West Brandywine, Pa., a research chemist who
worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War; Feb.
21. During his early career he was a researcher at the Booth, Garrett
& Blair chemical laboratory in Philadelphia, and then worked for
the predecessor companies of Atofina Chemicals research laboratory
until his retirement in the mid-1970s. During the war, he used his
expertise in analyzing the ore that made up the steel for armor plating
on ships built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. He also worked
as a civilian chemist with the former Pennwalt Chemical Co. as part
of the Manhattan Project, researching fluorspar, used in the production
of uranium fuel. According to his son, he had no idea why he was researching
uranium for the U.S. governmentuntil the atomic bomb was dropped
on Hiroshima. A self-taught woodworker, he built a 13-foot sailboat
in his garage.

Dr.
Benjamin F. Stearn V37, Westminster, Colo., a retired veterinarian
who had maintained a practice in Haddon Heights, N.J., for many years;
Aug. 23, 2002. As a volunteer he was instrumental in preserving and
maintaining the MacGregor working ranch, now on the Registry of Historic
Places, where high-school students learn the ecology and history of
Colorado. During the Second World War, as an officer in the U.S. Coast
Guard, he helped set up canine border patrols; he was later assigned
to the U.S. Navy and sent to China to assist its cavalry.

J.
Allman Stewart CCC37, Mount Holly, N.J., a retired research technician
who participated in studies that discovered a system of veins surrounding
the spinal column; March 16. He spent his entire career at Penn School
of Medicine at, where he conducted research in the physiology and
anatomy departments, retiring in 1976. In the 1950s he assisted anatomy
professor Oscar V. Batson in his perfecting a technique that revealed
a system of vertebral veins, now called Baxtons plexus. Until about
10 years ago J. Allman lived in a home he built on Rancocas Creek
in Burlington County, N.J. Having read about house construction while
living in Philadelphia in the mid-1950s, but with no experience in
carpentry, he and his family camped out in a tent during the summers
while he constructed the home on four acres of woods. According to
his son, he hand-cut everything in that place, nailed everything,
and sanded everything. They moved into the home in 1960. He also
served for many years as an informal pastor of Rancocas Creek, leading
services and teaching Bible studies at an open-air church near his
home.

Albert
J. Wentz GEd37, Drexel Hill, Pa., a retired teacher, principal,
and real estate agent; March 6. He was a teacher for the school district
of Springfield Township, Pa., for 35 years, before retiring as director
of industrial arts in 1976. He also served as a teacher and principal
for other schools in Delaware County and worked part-time in the laboratory
for Sun Co., for 38 years, where he became involved with the Sun day
camp from the 1950s to the 1990s. After retiring from education he
was a real estate broker for 18 years.

Dr.
Morris Cover V38, Chestertown, Md., retired director of veterinary
services and regulatory compliance for Ralston Purina; Jan. 28. Retiring
in 1985, he continued with the company as a consultant until 1992.
He also consulted as a research coordinator for the South Eastern
Poultry and Egg Association. In 1997 the U.S. Department of Agriculture
honored him for his work on avian diseases.

Louise
Geauque Fowler Ed38, Downingtown, Pa., March 6.

Hermione
Curiel Friend CW38, Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 20. Devoted to promoting
the cultural life of the city, she had help establish the Alabama
Symphony, and had served on the board of the Birmingham Museum of
Art. She also had served as chair of the advisory board of the Family
Court of Jefferson County. Having married while in college, she completed
her bachelors at the University of Alabama in 1968.

Richard
W. Goslin Jr. L38, Medford, N.J., the retired vice president
of Irving Trust Co. in New York; March 8. He had served on the board
of the Ho-Ho-Kus library.

Chester
C. Hilinski W38 L41, Hilton Head, S.C., a partner specializing
in international taxation at the law firm of Dechert, Price &
Rhoads in Philadelphia for 41 years; March 23. He served as president
of the U.S. branch of the International Fiscal Association in Rotterdam
and was a trustee of the Connelly Foundation for 28 years.

Constance
Schuessele Elwell Ed39, Batavia, Ill., March 7. She had pursued
a brief business career before raising a family.

Arthur
C. Goldstein W39, Miami, April 28, 2000.

Alan
Levin Jr. ME39, Wynnewood, Pa., May 27, 2000.

Frank
L. Reed W39, Morrisville, Pa., April 5, 2000.

Harry
L. Shoemaker W39, Baton Rouge, La., a supply and marketing executive
of Exxon Refinery for 43 years; March 13. He coached little-league
baseball in the CYO league from the late 1950s through the 1970s,
winning many league championships; he served as its commissioner of
baseball, 1979-82, and was named its Man of the Year in 1980. He had
served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War and remained in
the U.S. Army Reserve.

Frank
M. Cushman G40, Sharon, Mass., head of a transportation-law and
management-consulting firm in Sharon and Canton for over 50 years;
Nov. 15, 2002. He pioneered the concept of Transportation Cost Control,
and he promoted the concept of logistics for civilians when only the
military was actively utilizing logistics theory and practice. He
appeared before the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission and never
lost a case. He taught at Northeastern University and founded its
Transportation and Traffic Management Institute. Frank Cushman wrote
Manual of Transportation Law (1951) and Transportation for
Management (1953), and co-wrote Handbook of Business Administration
(1967). He was a founding member of the American Society for Traffic
and Transportation. And he served on his local zoning appeals board
for several years.

Samuel
McCreery Jr. W40, Alexandria, Va., a vice president of
Superior Mold and Die Co., Springfield, Va., during the 1980s and
early 1990s; Feb. 6. Earlier he had worked in sales for industrial
manufacturing businesses in Pennsylvania and Washington. During the
Second World War he served in intelligence with the U.S. Army in North
Africa.

William
K. Nasser WEF40, Scranton, Pa., June 25, 2002.

Marion
Scott Sargent DH40, Alma, Mich., a retired dental hygienist with
the Aliquippa school district; Dec. 31, 2002. She was also a former
deacon and elder of the Woodlawn Presbyterian Church and First United
Presbyterian Church of Aliquippa.

William
J. Southwell FA40 G41, Abington, Pa., Jan. 10, 2002.

Dr.
Ernest H. Williams M40, Greenville, S.C., Aug. 17, 2002.

LeRoy
Wittemire Jr. W40, Mansfield, Ohio, a retired cashier in the
accounts payable department of Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co.; Jan.
12. He was a past president of the Mansfield Aviation Club. During
the Second World War he served as a captain in the U.S. Army for five
years, and was stationed in Fiji, Bougainville, and Manila.

E.
Howard York III C40, Bryn Mawr, Pa., a retired advertising executive;
March 1. He began his career at Doremus & Co., an advertising
and public relations firm now part of Omnicom, becoming a company
vice president and regional manager in Philadelphia.. He was past
chair of the Philadelphia council of the American Association of Advertising
Agencies. After 30 years on the board of Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood,
he was named emeritus trustee in 1988. At Saunders House, a nursing
facility in Wynnewood, he served as a board member for more than 20
years and was chair of the development committee. E. Howard York was
president of his Class, a member of the Mask & Wig club, and served
on the Penn tennis team, for which he once played in a doubles tournament
disguised as a woman. A lifelong tennis player, he competed in national
and international competitions, including Wimbledon, and in 1938 he
and his father were finalists in the national father-and-son doubles
tournament. During the Second World War he was awarded the Silver
Star and Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.
When U.S. forces invaded Saipan and the Marshall Islands in 1944,
he was a beach master supervising landing craft under enemy fire,
earning a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He later led
underwater-demolition teams in the invasion of the Palau Islands.

Dr.
Alton J. Novak D41, Haverford, Pa., a retired dentist who had
taught at Penns School of Dental Medicine for almost 30 years; Feb.
20. He was an instructor in oral medicine at Penn 1941-49, an associate
professor from 1949 to 1965, and an assistant professor at the dental
school until 1970. Dr. Novak maintained a private dentistry practice
for more than 60 years. He had served in the U.S. Army with the rank
of major. Barbara J. Novak Wilkes DH68, is his daughter.

John
H. Osborne W41, Malvern, Pa., retired president of Osborne Dynamics,
a regional packaging sales company; Sept. 12, 2002. He served in the
U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander during the Second World War, landing
troops for the North Africa Campaign.

Katherine
M. Stanton Stratton CW41, Westtown, Pa., a former medical-records
librarian, who with her husband managed a 100-acre farm; March 1.
She was employed by Graduate Hospital, Middlesex General Hospital,
and the American Red Cross before her marriage; thereafter she helped
maintain Wynoor Farm, which combined land from her own and her husbands
families, and became known for its sweet corn.

H.
Gilbert Daley Jr. W42, Gladwyne, Pa., a former steel company
owner and retired real estate agent; Feb. 5. As a gunnery commander
on the aircraft carriers USS Cabot and USS Ranger, he
participated in naval battles in the South Pacific during the Second
World War. After his discharge he joined his fathers firm, Sweet
Steel Co., later becoming president of the company, which he sold
in the 1960s. He then became a real estate agent. As a member of the
Ventnor (N.J.) Beach Patrol, in the late 1940s he won the rowing competition
championship several times.

Myra
Demchick Levy CW42, Allentown, Pa., a retired substitute teacher
for the Allentown school district; Feb. 6. She was a life trustee
and campaign chair of the womens division of the Jewish Federation
of the Lehigh Valley, which named her Woman of the Year in 1988. Her
husband of 60 years is Morton R. Levy W39, and their children are
Judith Levy Cohen Roberts CW68 and Richard J. Levy C71. She was
sister of Selma Demchick E. Fishman FA48 and the daughter of Israel
Demchick Ar15, a Philadelphia architect.

Joseph
J. Heimbach L43, Evans, Ga., Jan. 25. He retired from the DuPont
Company in Wilmington, Del., after a 37-year career there.

Shirley
Krasnoff Howard DH43, Boynton Beach, Fla., Jan. 11.

Bernard
Herbert Karklin W43, Palm Springs, Calif., Nov. 2, 2002.

Bertram
Lipschutz W43, Narberth, Pa., a retired businessman; Feb. 13.
Following his service in the U.S. Army during the Second World War,
he operated Record Industrial Co., in King of Prussia, which provided
industrial and safety clothing to Fortune 500 companies. He was a
founding member of White Manor Country Club and served as its first
treasurer.

Dr. Brooke Roberts M43 GM50, Bryn Mawr, Pa., emeritus professor
of surgery, who served as a vascular surgeon at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania for 40 years; Feb. 23. At his retirement
in 1983, he was chief of the vascular surgery division at the hospital
and director of Penns fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery;he
worked in the hospitals surgery clinic and continued to teach anatomy
for several years. He helped develop innovative surgical treatments
for aortic aneurysms and obstructed femoral and carotid arteries,
and advocated the use of angioplasty as a less-invasive treatment
for vascular disease. According to his son, Thomas B. Roberts L79,
Dr. Roberts was known for technical excellence in the operating room
and a warm, confident bedside manner. A surgical research laboratory
at HUP was named for him in 1985, and a surgical chair at the Medical
School is to be established in his name. Dr. Roberts was chair of
the Medical Board at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
1969-71, and served as acting chair of the Department of Surgery,
1981-83. In 1982 he received the Strittmatter Award from the Philadelphia
County Medical Society for his contribution to medicine in Philadelphia.
During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

1944
| Dr.
Winthrop E. Brielman V44, Pittsfield,
Mass., a retired veterinarian who also served on the Mass. state board
of examiners in veterinary medicine; March 8. At Penn he was valedictorian
of his class; and he graduated the same year as his sister, Dr. Marguerite
Brielman Gulick V44. He entered private practice with his veterinarian
father, specializing in large-animal medicine. Dr. Brielman served
in the U.S. Army Veterinarian Corps from after graduation until he
retired in 1982. He was senior medical coordinator at the U.S. Army
medical treatment facility at Camp Drumm in Watertown, N.Y. For many
years he was state veterinarian for Western Massachusetts.

Geraldine Moore Crane Ed44,Hampton,
N.J., Nov. 3, 2000.

Dr.
Ross S. Funch C44, Lansdale, Pa., Dec.
20, 2002.

Jessie
M. Glass Ed44, Lancaster, Pa., who worked in nursing for 27 years;
March 1. She had been an instructor in nursing at the University of
Pittsburgh.

Allen
R. Greenlaw Jr ME45, Lansdale, Pa., a retired business executive
with the former Philadelphia-based Pennwalt Corp.; March 2. During
the Second World War he served aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific
Theater. In 1954 he and his wife were simultaneously stricken with
polio: although both survived, he was left with limited use of his
legs. Equipped with braces and crutches he was able to resume his
career in domestic and international travel, becoming president of
the Sharples Stokes division of Pennwalt Corp, where he worked for
42 years.

Aaron
Cohen W46, Lancaster, Pa., retired president and co-owner, with
his wife, of Lestz & Company; March 12. He was also past president
of Sales and Marketing Executives in Lancaster, and was a former board
member of Temple Beth El. During the Second World War he served as
a meteorologist with the U.S. Army in India.

Alan
M. Moskowitz W46, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a certified public accountant
and Jewish scholar; Feb. 26. Although he remained active in the accounting
practice he had established in 1953, he was also a scholar of Jewish
history and a collector of art and antiques. As a member of the Jewish
Genealogical Society and Society of Crypto-Jews, he researched the
history of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during
the Inquisition. He was a founding member of Temple Beth Hillel-Beth
El in Wynnewood, and served for more than 50 years as treasurer of
Har Jehuda Cemetery in Drexel Hill, which had been founded by his
grandfather. A member of Mensa, he was also a gifted chess player,
who often played blindfolded.

Joan
Sutton Wilson Ed47, Greensburg, Pa., a retired kindergarten teacher
and active civic volunteer; June 22, 2002. After teaching kindergarten
in Philadelphia for four years, she took time off to raise a family,
returning to the field of education in 1971. She started a private
kindergarten before becoming a teacher for the school district in
Hempfield, Pa., from which she retired in 1987. Among her many volunteer
activities, she did fundraising for American Field Service, the international
student-exchange program; and she helped establish a library at East
Hempfield Elementary School. She was a dedicated leader in the Girl
Scouts, remaining in touch for years with young women who had been
members of her troop.

George
D. McKinney CCC48, Dallas, March 2. He had served as an aviator
in the U.S. Navy.

Leona
Peffer Moore CW48, Wyncote, Pa., May 2, 2000.

Dr.
John G. Parres GEd48 Gr55, Austin, Tex., an educator for 38
years; Feb. 22. He began his career in 1939, as a teacher and basketball
coach in McHenry, Ky. In 1946 he accepted a teaching position with
the Philadelphia school system, where he remained until being appointed
director of research and publications for Delawares public-instruction
department in 1955. In 1963 he accepted the position of specialist
in legislative statistics with the U.S. Office of Education in Washington.
He returned to Delaware as a director of research and planning for
the Wilmington school district, retiring in 1980. Dr. Parres also
taught graduate courses at the University of Delaware from 1956 to
1973. And he served as a visiting professor at the University of Maine
and as adjunct professor at Southwest Texas State University He was
the president of the school study council in Delaware during the 1960s,
where he authored the first bill that called for the equalization
of educational opportunity in the states public schools, legislation
that prefigured a funding system that provided for the distribution
of state funds to school districts in inverse proportion to the per-pupil
wealth of the district. And he was a vice-president for education
of the states congress of parents and teachers, 1960-63.

Earl
F. Brown W49, Delray Beach, Fla., a retired managing partner
of Ernst & Young; March 2. After beginning his career as a certified
public accountant, he spent 31 years with Ernst & Young, where
he became managing partner in charge of Europe and was headquartered
in Paris. He had been a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 1942-45,
flying B-29 Super Fortresses in India, China, and the South Pacific,
for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He served
as a trustee of the University from 1978 to 1983.

Mary
C. Kerbaugh CCC49, Bryn Mawr, Pa., an assistant librarian at
Swarthmore College, who retired in 1979; March 15. During the Second
World War she drove an ambulance in Philadelphia and was a nurses
aide. She spoke fluent French and, at her parents home in Bryn Mawr,
hosted sailors serving on a Free French ship docked in Philadelphia
harbor. A devoted dog owner, she was an active supporter of animal
rights.

William
J. McDermott W49, Cherry Hill, N.J., a retired vice president
at Technitrol, Inc., an electronics manufacturing company in Trevose,
Pa.; March 10. Joining Technitrol in 1955, he worked his way up from
office manager to president, but stepped aside to manage the companys
budget. As vice president of finance he supervised mergers and acquisitions,
retiring in 1984.

Lydia
M. Langworthy Shipley Ed50 GEd51, Secane, Pa., a retired home-health
coordinator at the Philadelphia Veterans Hospital; February 1. She
became a public health nurse at HUP and later taught in the masters
program for nurses at Penn. As a rehabilitation clinical specialist
at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Philadelphia, she established
its home health-care program and served as its coordinator until her
retirement.

1952
| Dr.
Samuel Abrams D52, Boca Raton, Fla.,
chief of a dental clinic in Coatesville, Pa. for 37 years; Jan. 23.
He was also on the staff of Brandywine Hospital. His wife is Dr. Sondra
Golomb Abrams CW52 M56.

Earl
E. Idell WEv52, Whiting, N.J., an accountant for 30 years who
retired from Conair Corp in 1984; March 11. He had served in the U.S.
Army during the Second World War as a staff sergeant and medic in
the Medical Corps of the 24th Infantry Division, where he treated
soldiers and civilians.

Dr.
J. Bernard Real D52, Rome, N.Y., a dentist who practiced for
30 years; Nov. 1, 2002. He had served as president of the former local
dental society.

John
S. Rankin C52, Louisville, Ky., the retired president of the
former Almstedt Brothers, Inc., brokerage firm; March 3. He served
as board chair of both the Jewish Hospital Shelbyville and Presbyterian
Homes and Services. At Penn he was a member of Mask & Wig and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Dr.
John Walter High Jr. G53, Plymouth Meeting, Pa., professor emeritus
of history at Drexel University; Feb. 17. Although he always wanted
to be a teacher, he began his career as the plant manager for a Philadelphia
company that made furniture upholstery. Having left that position
for health reasons, he pursued a career in education. After joining
what was then called the Drexel Institute of Technology as an adjunct
assistant professor in 1966, he was appointed an assistant professor
of general studies in 1972 and an associate professor of history in
1980, a position he held until his retirement in 1998. He taught courses
in U.S. and world history, including the American Civil War and Vietnam
War. As a university administrator, he served as department head in
the general-studies division of the evening college and as an assistant
department head in history and politics. He received Drexels Laura
S. Campbell Award for excellence in teaching. He was the parish librarian
for St. Dunstans Episcopal Church in Blue Bell, where he served on
the vestry; for several years Dr. High was a delegate to the annual
convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

1954
| Daniel
Aaron G54, Philadelphia, a cable-television
pioneer and co-founder of Comcast Corp.; Feb. 20. In 1963 he, along
with Ralph J. Roberts W41 and Julian A. Brodsky W56, began what
would ultimately become Comcast Corp. An innovator in the industry,
he lobbied to secure access to telephone poles by cable firms. At
Comcast, he emphasized the rights of ordinary workers and advocated
local management of cable systems instead of top-down corporate control.
The person who really ran the business for the first 20 years was
Dan, said Brian L. Roberts W81, the son of Ralph Roberts and now
president of Comcast. Daniel Aaron retired as vice-chair of Comcast
in 1991, and wasinducted
into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in Denver in 2002. Prior to
starting Comcast he served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the
Second World War and was on the staff of The Philadelphia Bulletin.
He also worked for the Jerrold Electronics Corp., a cable equipment
manufacturer, before persuading Ralph Roberts to buy his first cable
system in Tupelo, Miss. In his 2001 autobiography, Take the Measure
of the Man: An American Success Story, he wrote, When I joined
the cable-television industry, it was the right time; it was the right
place. I was there at the beginning . What a rare privilege! His
book also detailed his difficult childhood, during which he and his
family, who were Jewish, immigrated to America from Nazi Germany in
1938. His parents committed suicide when he was 13 years old; he and
his nine-year-old brother were raised in foster homes. Ralph Roberts
said that Daniel Aarons greatest legacy is as an example to others
of how you can rise from the dust and become a champion.

1955
| Dr.
Robert W. Driscoll C55, Plymouth Meeting,
Pa., a retired surgeon at the old Suburban General Hospital in Norristown,
who was instrumental in developing its trauma medicine procedures;
March 2. Dr. Driscoll joined the staff at the hospital (now Mercy
Suburban Hospital) in 1972, when the surrounding area was largely
rural, so trauma medicine meant accidents with farm equipment. With
the expansion of suburbs, his specialty increased and he helped develop
the hospitals approach to emergency medicine, such that he became
known as Dr. Trauma. During his 26 years at the hospital he served
as head of surgery and chief of staff, retiring in 1998. He was also
active as a Plymouth Township commissioner and councilman. A licensed
pilot since 1953, Dr. Driscoll was president of a partnership of pilots
and aviation enthusiasts. In 1993 he restored a 1955 Maxim fire truck
and donated it to Firemans Hall, National Firehouse and Museum in
Philadelphia. Following his graduation from Penn he served in the
U.S. Navy as a jet pilot.

Shumer
S. Lonoff W56, New York, a member of the Wall Street steering
committee of the UJA-Federation; March 18.

James N. Mullen L56, West Chester, Pa., a retired attorney
who chronicled the history of high-school football; March 10. His
first professional position was as an attorney for the old Pennsylvania
Railroad; he joined the law department of Bell of Pennsylvania, now
Verizon, in 1979. During the 1990s he was managing attorney for the
State Workers Insurance Co. and was then a consultant for the law
firm of Sand & Saidel in Philadelphia. At Penn he was a member
of the law review.A
dedicated fan of professional and amateur athletics, he published
a history of Ridley Park High School football teams.

Barbara
A. Simpson G56, Charlotte, N.C., a teacher of economics for 20
years and the first woman commissioner of the North Carolina Public
Utilities Commission; Feb. 11. She taught at Queens College in Charlotte,
William & Mary College, and in Europe for the University of Maryland.
She was later the director of federal affairs for Duke Power for 14
years.

1957
| James
O.G. Drake III W57 G59, White Stone,
Va., an investment banker and consultant; Feb. 25. A president of
Drake-Moran, Inc., he also served as a consultant for Childrens Television
Workshop. His community volunteer activities included serving as board
chair of the Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury Foundation.

1958
| Dr.
Paul V. DeMaso D58, Lakewood, N.J.,
a retired dentist who had served in the U.S. Navy during two wars;
March 10. He practiced dentistry for 41 years, in Great Kills and
New Dorp, retiring in 1999. He was a member of numerous professional
dental organizations and was a founding member of the South Shore
Dental Club. In 1996 he received a lifetime-achievement award from
the Richmond County Dental Society.

Dr.
Carl E. Pipes D58, Scituate, Mass., a practiced family dentistry
for 41 years; March 11. An avid environmentalist, he served on the
conservation commission in Scituate, was one of the originators of
its recycling program, and most recently worked on the Community Preservation
Act. And he was a selectman for six years, three of them as chair.
He had been a captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps 1958-61.

Hon.
Allen G. Schwartz L58, Rye, N.Y., a federal judge who also served
as New Yorks corporation counsel under Mayor Edward I. Koch; March
22. He was appointed to the federal bench of the Southern District
of New York in 1993 and he continued to serve on the bench, in Manhattan
and White Plains, until his death. Prior to becoming a judge, he spent
years in private practice and was Mayor Kochs first corporation counsel,
a post he held from 1978 to 1981. His relationship with Mayor Koch
began when they were partners in the law firm of Koch, Lankenau, Schwartz
& Kovner. Because of this, he was able to swiftly revamp the corporation
counsels office, which, like many other city offices, was in disarray.
After moving the office from its antiquated quarters to a modern facility
nearby, he dealt with the heavy backlog of cases by hiring dedicated
young lawyers from both the public and private sectors and instituting
a pro-bono program in which major law firms provided extensive free
legal work for the city. Subsequently the law department revenues
began exceeding expenditures. Hon. Allen Schwartz advised Mayor Koch
on policy questions ranging from the ill-fated Westway Highway project
to the citys troubled transit system. After leaving City Hall, he
returned to private law practice, but worked pro bono as the citys
sports commissioner 1982-83, which stemmed from his lifelong interest
in baseball.

Mary
M. Kingsley SW60, Bethlehem, Pa., a social worker for Northampton
County Children and Youth Services in Easton, Pa., for 25 years, retiring
in 1997; March 14. Previously she had been a social worker for Montgomery
County Social Services in Maryland for 10 years. And she volunteered
as a swimming instructor for disabled children for the Red Cross of
the Lehigh Valley for six years.

Dr.
Jeffie F. Roszel V63, Tulsa, Okla., emeritus professor of veterinary
pathology at Oklahoma State University; Jan. 13. During the Second
World War she and her sister traveled with the USO as a singing and
comedy duo, The Fisher Sisters. After the war, she was a model with
the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency, was once on the cover of Vogue, and
appeared in other magazines. Deciding on a career in veterinary medicine,
she enrolled at Penn: married, 33 years old and one of five women
in her class. One of the first cytopathologists in veterinary medicine,
she was briefly an assistant professor of pathology at Penn, accepting
a position in Tulsa in 1971. Prevention of cruelty to animals was
of vital importance to her: a study she completed on carriage horses
in citieswhich showed that traffic pollution causes as severe damage
to a horses lungs as heavy human smokers cause to their own, and
that hard streets cause lameness and hoof deteriorationis widely
cited.

Dr.
Kenneth J. Rubin V64, Blue Bell, Pa., a retired veterinarian;
March 5. Following graduation, he opened the Mount Airy Animal Hospital
in Philadelphia and, later, the Andorra Veterinary Clinic in Lafayette
Hill, practicing at both places until his retirement. He was past
president of the Keystone Veterinary Medical Association.

Margaret
L. Trenchard Nu64 GNu65, Minneapolis, a nurse educator who had
a 28-year career as in Minnesota and South Dakota; February 23. She
was an associate professor of nursing at South Dakota State University
in Brookings, and completed her teaching career in the Minnesota Community
College system, receiving a certificate of commendation from the governor
at her retirement in 1993.

1965
| Bruce
Joel Jacobsohn W65 L68, Charlotte,
N.C., an attorney specializing in labor-related litigation; March
21. He began his career at the National Labor Relations Board before
serving as counsel for the U.S. Postal Service. At Penn he was a member
of Alpha Epsilon Pi, and a star wrestler who won two gold medals at
the 1965 Maccabiah Games. His eclectic tastes and wide range of interests
included the breeding of Bouviers des Flandres dogs.

Dr.
Norman Frank V68, Miami Beach, a retired veterinarian; Dec. 28,
2002. He and his wife established a mixed practice in the mountains
of Schuylkill County, Pa. He was also active in training and driving
Standardbred racehorses. In 1989 he founded Reptile and Amphibian
Magazine; following the sale of his practice and the magazine,
he relocated to Fla., where he established another veterinary practice
in 2001.

1983
| Dianne
C. Shapiro GNu83, Princeton, N.J., a
former operating room nurse, who also served as a nursing instructor
at Mercer County Community College; Feb. 28. After a two-year battle,
she overcame a form of asbestos-related mesothelioma that, at the
time, was thought to be fatal. One of a handful of patients to survive,
she was featured in a nationally exhibited study of the effects of
the condition. Requiring an elaborate nutrition regime that restricted
her activities, she learned to make it portable, which allowed her
to snow ski, and to tour her ancestral home of Italy with her family
several years ago.

Robert
M. Hanna, Philadelphia, a renowned landscape architect who served
on Penns faculty for more than 30 years; March 8. He joined Penn
in 1969 as a lecturer, then served as assistant professor 1970-76,
associate professor (with tenure) from 1976 to 1990, and adjunct professor
from 1990 to 2000. Although he had not taught landscape architecture
since fall 1998, he recently taught urban studies. In 1974 he was
appointed the first chair of the Design of the Environment program,
an undergraduate design major, which he had helped to create. And
he helped start the transformation of the Penn campus envisioned in
the Campus Master Plan. He is also well-known for founding the prominent
international landscape-architecture firm, Hanna/Olin Ltd. Two of
its commissions in the 1980s, the Fifth Avenue Terrace of the New
York Public Library and Bryant Park, revitalized an entire block of
midtown Manhattan. Other projects include the IBM world headquarters
in Armonk, N.Y., the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick,
N.J., Battery Park City in Manhattan, Ellis Island, the U.S. Holocaust
Museum in Washington, and Canary Wharf in London. Since 1995 he served
as principal of R. M. Hanna Landscape Architects, where he worked
with his wife, Beverly Briggs GLA79; notable projects of this firm
include the Canberra Central National Area, Canberra, Australia, the
Tianfu Square Master Plan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, The Hun School,
Princeton, N.J., and a new town square for Pottstown, Pa.